cnn's rachel nichols is live for us in new orleans. if they had been able to come back, wow, that would have been the story, but they couldn't. >> reporter: huge momentum swings in this game, soledad. for anyone following the ravens' season, they've seen this all year. two of their best players injured for quite some time in the middle of the season. they fired their offensive coordinator. all these back and forths during this gam, they really took it in stride. in fact, i talked to the mvp of this game, quarterback joe flacco, afterward, and he showed why he's earned his nickname joe cool. he said, eh, no big deal. take a listen. >> we've been through games like that. we understand that's probably going to happen. these guys are a good football team. it's tough to look at it like that. when they made it 28-20, it's like, okay, yeah. it's not really what we wanted, but we still have the lead, and we've got to go out there and execute. that's what we were able to do. we were able to put a couple good drives together at the end. we weren